new paper in Angew. Chem. (external link, opens in a new window)
We contributed to a collaboration with the teams of Bach, de Vivie-Riedle, Ochsenfeld, and Fingerhut, discovering that cyclohept-2-enone-3-carboxylic acid switches from cis- to trans-form via irradiation, and the trans-isomer leads to chiral products with up to 38% enantioselectivity.
